Posts by Anon 213 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Oct 2007
Roughly the same here.
The blurb under the percentages includes "the chance of being able to stream video, make a video call, or quickly download a webpage with images to your phone when you have coverage." Lol. What about the chance of being able to make a phone call or send/receive SMS?
Wi-Fi calling for me >95% of the time, especially if it's been raining or they've recently "improved" the service.
If you wanted reliable, you'd have a failover from one supplier to a different supplier, using different ducts under different roads, no infrastructure in common, and you'd be in charge of all the backhoe rental companies in the area. With satellite comms as a backup.
It'll need a new belt by now, and probably also the rubber suspension band that holds the motor will need to be replaced, if my Planar 3 from the 80s is anything to go by. New belts/bands are cheap. Careful of the screws: they are only plastic. Oh, and have a look at the capacitor too—they used those infamous RIFA ones. A safe replacement one is cheap from RS.
But if a village of people getting $100 pooled the money, they could buy tools to help till the land, seeds suitable for their environment that would produce plants that produced seeds for the next year, schooling materials for education - especially for girls, and so on. The lack of a shop in the next village does not preclude the purchase of items.
This was an obvious idea since hard disk drives were created. Why didn't the massive performance improvement of zero track-to-track delay (taking into account rotational latency) for larger files, and better performance anyway, from having two complete sets of heads ever become a thing? Or did it, and it never made it to user-level compoinents?
A 240/230/220/110 switch usually indicates that a large iron-core transformer is being used, and the switch changes which tap on the primary is used, or for 110 V puts two (to better handle the doubled current) primary windings in parallel.
Not all switched-mode power supplies have an active power factor correction (PFC) stage which can work with a large range of input voltages. The ones that don't have active PFC have a switch to change between the input capacitors being wired in parallel (for 110 V) or series (for 230 V); they will of course only be rated for 200 V or so as there's no point using larger and more expensive capacitors. 230 VAC rectified gives about 325 V. Electrons with an excitement level of 325 V are partying too hard to be contained by a 200 V-rated cap, and the magic smoke and sparks escape.
What are the published uncertainties/error bounds/spread/confidence levels in PWC's predictions?
The report you appear to quote from,
https://www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/press-releases/uk-could-remain-top-10global-economy-in-2050.html
says that the UK could fall from 9th to 10th or 5th to 9th place in the world by 2050, depending on the measure chosen.
FALL.
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